Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal

PIE contributes to international research and practice in industrial ecology for sustainable development. PIE aims to establish channels of communication between academics, practitioners, business stakeholders and the government with an interdisciplinary and international approach to the challenges of corporate social responsibility and inter-organisational environmental management.

The objective of PIE is to bridge material and energy flow analysis to business studies, management and organisational studies and to corporate environmental management. In this way, our objective is to contribute to the ecological, but also to the social and economic dimensions, of sustainable development. While the approach of PIE in combining engineering and natural science orientated methods with social science or business economics methods is a novel and fresh contribution to the theory of industrial ecology, the journal also sees this bridge as the critical step that must be taken to turn industrial ecology theory into industrial ecology practice.

Readership

Academics, practitioners, business stakeholders and the government and others involved in sustainable development research and practice, in material and energy flow studies and applications and in corporate social responsibility and environmental management.

Contents

PIE encourages the use of a systems approach to the flows of matter and energy. This provides a vehicle to complement intra-organisational environmental management with inter-organisational environmental management, because the physical flows cross products, process and firm boundaries. Inter-organisational environmental management addresses the entire life cycle of products from cradle to grave and all the networks, economic actors and business stakeholders along this life cycle.

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